Bouchout Declaration presented at the Persistent Identifier IG of the 4th Plenary of the Research Data Alliance in Amsterdam, September 24, 2014.

1. Bouchout Declaration
for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
Donat Agosti
Plazi
RDA Persistent Object Identifier IG
Amsterdam, September 24, 2014

2. Bouchout Declaration
Bouchout Declaration
http://bouchoutdeclaration.org

3. Bouchout Declaration
An outcome from a coordination action
from the EU-funded pro-iBiosphere
project (2012-14)

4. Bouchout Declaration
Launched: June 12, 2014

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GOAL: Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
As signatories, we encourage an overarching approach
to Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management which is
based on the following fundamental principles:

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Open Access
The free and open use of digital resources about
biodiversity and associated access services

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Licenses
Licenses or waivers that grant or allow all users a
free, irrevocable, world-wide, right to copy, use,
distribute, transmit and display the work publicly
as well as to build on the work and to make
derivative works, subject to proper attribution
consistent with community practices, while
recognizing that providers may develop
commercial products with more restrictive
licensing.

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Licenses ctd.
Data and research results are not copyrighted
and thus no license should be added (see Blue
List: http://plazi.org/?q=blue_list)
If possible, publications should be created as
Open Access works

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Policy
Policy developments that will foster free and
open access to biodiversity data

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Attribution
Tracking the use of identifiers in links and
citations to ensure that sources and suppliers of
data are assigned credit for their contributions

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Infrastructure
An agreed infrastructure, standards and protocols
to improve access to and use of open data

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Registers
Registers for content and services to allow
discovery, access and use of open data

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Development
Dialogue to refine the concept, priorities and
technical requirements of Open Biodiversity
Knowledge Management

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Business
A sustainable Open Biodiversity Knowledge
Management that is attentive to scientific,
sociological, legal, and financial aspects

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Persistent Identifiers
Persistent identifiers for data objects and physical
objects such as specimens, images and taxonomic
treatments with standard mechanisms to take
users directly to content and data

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Focus on stable httpURI identifiers
inroad to Linked Open Data

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Focus on stable httpURI identifiers
inroad to Linked Open Data
cost effective
control on provider side
institutional commitment to persistence

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Linked Open Data
Linking data using agreed vocabularies, both
within and beyond biodiversity, that enable
participation in the Linked Open Data Cloud

22. Sign now!
When do you sign?
bouchout@plazi.org
bouchoutdeclaration.org